University of Chicago - Cap and Gown Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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BEATRICE MINTZ LEO NEDELSKY Assislan! Professor Assnciale Profesmr 0f Biological Science of Natural Scienn- DURBIN HENRY W1 SANS ROW'LAND Associalr Profrwnr Associate Professor of English of French ROBERT E. JOSHUA C. STREETER TAYLOR Associate Professor Asaiaranl Prufesgnr of English of An Dean of L'nliege l. W 4 In. W IZAAK WIRSZUP RICHARD R Assistant Professor WOH'L of Mathematics Associate Professor of Social Sciences ?mlty E. Su- 3 EUGENE R WILLIAM O'MEARA CIIY C OMEH JR, NORTHROP Professnr 0f Pllilnsnphy Assislam Professor William Rainey nf Nalural Frience Harper Professor of Maihcmatits :43 3 f t. .adlv ,......- .n 4-K r? w a AARON SAYVETZ STEFl-KN IL HCHI'LTZ JOSEPH J. SCHWAB Associate Profescor Associate Prufmmr Wilfiam Rainey of Nalural SCIENCES of German Harper Professor of Nalural Scicnrrs 7: , .- 1M W- 4' .4 A: 3K . I $ E :5 X f xii ' f RUSSELL B. SYLVIA L. THRFPP ROSALIF. H. WAX THOMAS Associalc Pruivssur flirt Murray! Professor of of Social Scienct-s Agsislan'r Prniessor Humanities of Anthropology HAROLD ZYSKIND Assistant Professor Of I'lllmanilit's

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. .9; 9:- 0-. W DONALD MEIKLEJOHN Assodale Professor of Philosophy JANE OVERTON tMrs. Georgel Assistant Professor uf Namtal Sciences JOEL SEIDMAN Associate Professor and Chairman uf Social Sciences Staff ii i g GEORGE J. GERHARD E. O. MARVIN MAYERS HELEN S. MIMS METCALF MEYER Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Associate Professor Associate Professor of Social Science of Social Science of German 01 Economics A Vlrmv '. vu- th ; lg GEORGE L. PLAYE Assistant Professor and Chairman of French Slaff m V $ HENRY RACO Assislam Professor of Humanities EA ; $3 ALFRED L. PI'TNAM Associ alt: Professor EDWARD W. ROSENHEIM JR. and Chairman of Assislant Professor Mathematics Staff of Humanities V 17 7x I $ur- y lb 4; SIDNEY J'. HOWARD STEIN CALVIN W. RICHARD J. SOCOLAR Assistant Prolessor STILLMAN STORE Assistant Professor of Natural Sciences Assistant Professor Assistant Professor of Phybical Sciences of Social Scicnces of History RICHARD M. CHARLES W, DAVID C. WEAVER WEGENER WILLIAMS Associale Professor Assistant Professor Associate Profesezor of English of Humanities of Humanities Chairman of UMP. Staff 3715 60mm

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2: BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES hr Merle C. Cott-teri P1113. Professor of Botany. Associate Dean Division of Biologicat Sciences IGH-SCHOOL graduates of 1953 will have the opportunityr to commence a three-year me. medical curriculum at the University of Chi- cago uhieh provides all the principal educational values of the previous four-yeal' course. This eurrieu- him is the result of the eonihinetl educational expe- rience 0f the College and the Division of Biological Sciences. 1t retains the advantages of superior general education and a thorough pre-profeseional training. For a good many years the education at premedi- cal students at the University Of Chicago has been of the highest caliber. This is evident hy the perfonn ance of the Chieago-prepaired students on the Medieal College Admission Test. by their performance in medical Schools. and by their performance after they have graduated. Dr. Lowell T. Coggeshatt, Frederick H. Rmvson. Professor of Medicine. Dean of the Division of Biological Sciences. um, .. .........t..w,-M-w-o,wt The results of the Medical College Admission Test give what at present is the most objective evidence of the comparative quality of premedieal training of- fered in the country. Year after year the classes that have received their trainingr at Chicago have made distinguished records: on this; test. In the years that the Chicago group has not rated firFt nalionaiiy, it has been topped by the groups of only one or two small and highly selective colleges. This distin- guished record has been maintained consistently down to the present time. Complete and ohjeetive data 011 the performance of Chicago-prepared students in the medical schools throughout the country have become available only recently through the services 01 the Association of American Medical Colleges. These data show an im- pressively greater number of Chicago-prepared stu- dents in the highest third of their medical school classes than in the lowest third. This was to be ex- pected, since it was already known that there was a significant positive correlation hetween the Medical College Admission Test and the giadee subsequently made in the Course work of the medical coileges. Lev cally, it i? the opinion of the medieal school faculty that Stlldents receiving their premedival school train- ing at Chicago rank higher, on the average, than those from elsewhere. Perfonnanee after graduation from medical school is imposaihle to evaluate ohjeetively. One must de- pend on general impressions gained from various: sources. In connection with the twenty-fifth anniver- sary of Billings Hospital, whir-h was celebrated in October, 1952, the roster of the WLDCS that had been graduated in the last quarterveentury was examined with some care. The distinguished accomplishments of these graduates added up to an impressive total, and it was noted that many of the outstanding mem- bers of the group had received their prernedical as well as their medical training at the University of Chicago. When we attempt to understand what mayr have led to these: t'PRlIitS. we are forced to recognize that a good many factors are involved. The most readily identified factor is a Characteristic policy of the Uni- versity of Chicago which has aiieeted its premedical as well as most of its other students. The University has not only maintaineci high Standards in the essen- tial pre-pmfessional course; hut has- eoneerned itself intensively with the general edueation components of the premedieal curriculum. Though the general education components: of pre- medieal education at Chicago have continued to he very effective for over two decades. this does not mean that they have remained static. They have been re- peatedly modified with steady improvement in qual- ity but also substantial increase in quantity. As a re- suit.- most of the high school graduates of recent years